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This issue of HowDo?! explores themes of time, place and the importance of the everyday through a series of poems by Nick Toczek, Richard Orange and Joolz Denby. These poems reflect Martin O’Connell’s photography of Bradford in the 1970s and 1980s. To the surrealists poetry was a way of accessing the unconscious mind, with the goal of reuniting the conscious and unconscious realms of experience. In Martin O’Connell’s photographs we experience a conscious moment through the eyes of the pedestrian observer. Owen Hatherley’s musings on regeneration in Bradford expand on these poetic notions of identity and place by questioning the sterilising tendencies of commercial development. In his discussion of Bradford’s regeneration, past, present and future, he suggests our presently undefined city has unique potential to develop itself in a more socially progressive way; a way that involves the people in defining the identity and the functions.
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By engaging with our emotive perceptions we see beauty in Bradford through the poetry of the place; the cultural heritage and the people. I believe the answer is in finding a shared understanding of what defines Bradford? What makes us different and what is our cultural export? For me we are predominantly defined by independent enterprise, working people, and the multiplicity of cultures. The city’s vibrant arts and cultural scene demonstrates this as an alternative narrative that needs representing and promoting through creative media; it is this expression that has the potential to define us collectively. I believe this is a key part of the puzzle in ‘regenerating’ Bradford and hope that HowDo?! has been and will be of service to the city’s creative and social progression.
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4 REGENERATION By Owen Hatherley
8 ONE WEIRD WINTER By Nick Toczek
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REGENERATION OWEN HATHERLEY
‘REGENERATION’ USED TO BE CALLED SOMETHING ELSE – ‘COMPREHENSIVE REDEVELOPMENT’. THE LANGUAGE IS DIFFERENT, THOUGH BOTH HAVE SOMETHING DISTINCTLY HAUGHTY ABOUT THEM. REGENERATION, A ‘90s PHRASE, HAS A QUASI-RELIGIOUS, BLAIR-GRINNING GLOW, AND A HEAVY IMPLICATION THAT BEFOREHAND, THE PLACE IN QUESTION WAS, WELL, DEGENERATE. THE OLDER 1950s PHRASE IS COLDLY TECHNOCRATIC, SAYING LITTLE ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT, OTHER THAN ITS TOTAL, UNIVERSAL SCALE. But they are, more or less, exactly the same thing. Both entail demolishing large swathes of cities and building new things in their place. Both of them concentrate on commercial spaces in central areas, industrial spaces that have become disused, and spaces where working-class people live. They didn’t always happen in the same places, though. Bradford got a fair amount of comprehensive redevelopment, but it was never subjected to much in the way of regeneration – bar, of course, one gigantic hole, in a place where a comprehensive redevelopment used to be.
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There were other differences, some political, some aesthetic. Both liked big, insular shopping malls and tall speculative office blocks, but then comprehensive redevelopment built council houses, while regeneration demolishes them. The buildings that emerged out of comprehensive development – in Bradford, High Point, the Arndale, the University, the city’s handful of tower blocks – are stark, strong and sometimes rather sombre
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structures, while regeneration, as five minutes in Leeds will make clear, entails jolly, brightly coloured cladding applied to flimsy frames. The balance is clearly not in regeneration’s favour, although in its defence, while its earlier cousin tended to plough highways through built-up areas, regeneration attempts, not always successfully, to make places for walking rather than driving in. Both had very little to do with democracy or popular participation, though comprehensive redevelopment could say with justification that it made living conditions better for the majority, and regeneration can point to a thousand coffee-morning ‘consultations’. Martin O’Connell’s photographs of Bradford show some of the results of comprehensive development, and in fact suggest that it never went that far in Bradford in the first place. The most obvious image of its more baleful effects is the car park opposite the Town Hall, and the wide, gaping dual carriageway that crosses it, with a spindly walkway arching between them. Terrible traffic grinds its way through snow, and glassy stone-clad structures emerge on the edges of grass verges. Largely, though, you can still see the dense, proud, even pretentious city built at the end of the nineteenth century, its Gothic arches over stock exchanges and grandiose columns enclosing offices, with the only obvious modernisation, aside from the cars, the people and the steel and glass bus stops. And so, more or less, it still is. In fact the hole opens up an unrivalled vista of the city, a panorama of its metropolitan scale and civic grandeur, largely unencumbered by dross of any kind. There’s not a view like this
anywhere in Leeds, and even Liverpool and Manchester have self-harmed much of their similar spaces. Bradford has, entirely accidentally, done less damage to itself for the last twenty years than any comparable city – poverty has somehow stopped the onrush of self-destruction. And the city knows it. Look at the graffiti that used to cover the Westfield fence: ‘BEST AMONG RUINS’. What that isn’t is a demand that Westfield come back and make everything nice again. ‘PLEASE BUILD US A SHOPPING MALL’ was conspicuous by its absence among the placards or the graffiti, nor the desire for Bradford to be as fantastic as Bury or Derby, with their lovely new malls. On the contrary. The total failure of regeneration in Bradford means that it has the unique opportunity, the leftover space, to do something different, something that doesn’t entail turning over the city centre to privately-owned and privately-patrolled retail dystopias, or asking an architect in London to scribble a whimsical town-plan on the back of an envelope. Most other places just glumly tolerate, or shop their way through their holes, their fenced-off spaces, their high-profile failures. Bradford, probably uniquely, doesn’t. It has the potential, and will, to create democratic spaces that replace the endless see-saw of development-demolition-regeneration.
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BIO: Owen Hatherley is a writer based in Woolwich, and the author of Militant Modernism, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Uncommon and A New Kind of Bleak.
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“THEY WERE TAKEN AT A TIME WHEN NOT MANY PEOPLE WOULD VENTURE OUT TO CAPTURE THE URBAN SNOW SCENES, PEOPLE SEEM A LOT MORE DRAWN TO THEM.” KW:
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I was born in Ireland, and came over to Bradford in 1958. By 1967 I was already getting my feet under the table in the photographic retail trade and spent the next twenty two years in that business working at various places, ending with the Bradford Camera Exchange on North Parade. I was very unusual going into photography in that time - in the ‘60s, a lot of young men were going into engineering and textiles and so forth. I desperately wanted to be in the photographic business, but the only way I could get in was through the retail door.
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MO: I’ve always been excited about photographs. I was always excited to watch the actual paper evolving into a picture as it was being developed. It used to blow me away then and it still does today, even now. Even if I’m working on the computer now I can’t wait for it to be uploaded and see how it looks.
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MO: I like to take pictures at night and
No, I knew they were there, really. I’m a bit of a sentimentalist, to be honest – I think that’s the Irish in me. I like looking back, so I dug them out and journeyed through them all. The thought of going into a dark room, wet processing them and going through all the junctions of developing them was not appealing to me anymore, and I found that there were things like Photoshop, where I could scan them and improve them. That was quite a big thing for me.
Why do you think your photographs are so interesting to other people? I like to go out when it’s dark, or when it’s really dull weather, which Bradford is wonderfully good for. I think that at the time my photographs were perhaps very unusual, and I’m not fooling myself on this, but I think the reason why they are so popular is simply because nobody was doing that as much in those days. I suppose my pictures stood out from the crowd.
KW: These photographs were obviously taken a long time ago how old were you at the time? What did you enjoy capturing?
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I was around 15 or 16 when I started, and the first load of negatives were taken around Bradford by me when I was a young man. The Central Library had just been opened in 1968 and I went to the top of the library, through a little rope and went right up to the top to take a picture of the bottom of Manchester Road with the original Odeon cinema.
The Bradford Camera Exchange, North Parade, Mid-1980s. From left to right: Alastair (Owner of Table Decor), Laiquat Ali & Chris Dolby (Bradford Camera Exchange)
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MO: As I said, I’ve never liked taking pictures on sunny days, and there is a chap on Facebook called Voeckan, I don’t know what nationality - I think he is Eastern European - he produces the most wonderful, dark, gothic works and I love his stuff. KW: You now run the website the Bradford Eye – what prompted you to start the site? MO: About ten years ago I decided to scan these negatives that I found in the loft, not necessarily knowing that I was going to build a website, but rather just scanning them on the basis that they may one day come in handy. Then, in 2008, I had to retire from work, which gave me the perfect time and opportunity to actually do something with these negatives that I had scanned onto the computer and build a website, which subsequently became the Bradford Eye. After leaving Bradford Camera Exchange in 1989, photography took a bit of a backseat in my life and this website is basically a new home for my nostalgia, finding its place on the internet through images, both of the Bradford we know now and the Bradford we once knew.
would venture out to capture the urban snow scenes, people seem a lot more drawn to them. The snow brightens to photos, even if they were shot at night, but it also creates this amazing, eerie atmosphere, which in turn produces some fantastic ethereal photographs.
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You are obviously fond of Bradford’s harsh winters! Do you think your photographs have helped Bradford’s inhabitants realise its beauty?
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People are the strangest of creatures! They would moan about the weather, but this would give perfect strangers the chance to discuss their displeasure (rubbish of course, they loved it!). For many it was the great coming together of a mutually shared experience.
KW: Your website has become a platform not just for your own photographs, but for the images produced by others. Do you feel as though photography has changed since you started out?
MO: Many people say that photography
the snow in the ‘70s and ‘80s are the most popular gallery on the website. What inspired you to capture those winter scenes?
is now for the masses, not just a turn of the 20th century hobby for elitists. With the equipment available today, it’s easy to grab a camera, fire a shot, and correct anything that has gone amiss using Photoshop. I do fear, however, how many would be so keen if they had to revert to using film like we did in the ‘60s, baring the brunt of pain and effort to get a worthwhile result, to have it then be judged by others as to whether or not it is considered art.
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KW: Your photographs of Bradford in
Taking photos of the snow is brilliant and I think, because they were taken at a time when not many people
MO: All cities change but unfortunately due to bad management Bradford has not evolved as say its neighbour Leeds. This I find sad, not just for myself but for the young people that won’t be looking back, having proud memories of their city. It’s not all doom and gloom I’m sure, but if there is a rainbow on the horizon, it better start showing itself soon. And I don’t mean a clone of a shopping centre that can be found in any city in the country! We need to encourage new ideas and support people with vision by giving them a platform to drive the city forward. I’m a great believer that the old and established should help the young. Bradford to me was a most exciting and vibrant city, and I’d love to see it get back to that.
KW: Do you still find there are unique and interesting photographs yet to be taken, all these years on?
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THERE WILL ALWAYS BE UNIQUE PICTURES TO BE TAKEN, BUT WE ALL COME TO LIFE AT DIFFERENT TIMES, I HAD MY TIME AND TOOK WHAT OPPORTUNITY I HAD, NOT JUST TO TAKE PICTURES OF BUILDINGS BUT ALSO TO SHOW THE PEOPLE OF THE DAY.
How do you feel about Bradford today? Has it changed since you first arrived? Martin O’Connell in 1967
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An angel appeared in the city late one afternoon; There it was, huge and still, with a flaming sword In one great hand and a set of dealer’s scales in the other. It had skin at once white as ice cream and black as cats, no-one afterwards could decide its race. Its hair flickered and twisted sometimes brass, Sometimes the indigo of midnight in the desert, And its garment was a column of bleached linen Its sandals were bound with living vipers Its eyes were spectrum violet and its mouth Was a burning coal of fire so when it spoke Which it did, believe me - its breath was as hot as the Khamsin wind that destroys the crops and brings the plague, And it smelt of Gum Arabic, frankincense and death. All around it as it stood immaculate and undeniable The traffic hooted and the people asked if it was a Hologram, a laser thing or a new kind of advert; Drunks and smackheads wove the angel into their Usual delusions and so attained a kind of innocence, The police of course got cars, shields and dogs anticipating Riots but the angel just stood - taller than the cafes and shops and offices where idlers hung out of the Windows gawping, then it - and I was there so I know, not like some I could mention who tell it like they heard it all and didn’t - the angel said this to the assembled crowd: Mend your ways or you will be destroyed. Its voice was white noise, tearing metal and screams, It was the beauty of a newborn’s wail and the living dawn Louder than a sonic boom and as quiet and piercing as love; But still the people said what? And, did you get that? And is it political? and is it some kind of religious nutter ? and they waited for the angel to speak again, To explain itself to them, but it didn’t, having said what it was sent to say Then quick as it had come it was gone in a suck of vacuum and whirling dust that annoyed everyone. An angel came to the city - you can see it on the internet, Filmed on everyone’s phones, you can hear what it said for yourselves and you can believe it or not, as you choose.
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